Fantasy beginning

Well, not really. Got 2 out of my 3 Germans correct with Klose and Schweinsteiger. Shame about Lehmann though. My gut was telling me that keepers would be a liability in this scoring system (-3 for a goal allowed) and I was right. I should listen to my gut more often.

Also wish I had Klose as my captain for the double points. 19 becoming 38 (by my maths) is going to be a really nice cushion over the rest of us slobs. And the -6 from Lehmann... ouch.

Okay, now I'm depressing myself. Must focus on the positive...

Great opening game and the hits keep coming. Eng-er-land tomorrow and I'll assume that this group has 3 apiece. Here's hoping for Gerrard's recovery and his continuing his knack for stepping it up on the big stage.

7 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:02 PM

    I guessed right and got Klose as Captain for the double. Like you, I rue the -6 from Lehman. I doubt he had any saves.

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  2. Anonymous5:23 PM

    I had Klose as captain plus Schweinsteiger so I'm looking to be somewhere near the top from the start. Unfortunately I also had Lehmann and I'm a bit miffed as I considered dropping him this morning in favour of Reina instead.

    I've also got 7 playing tomorrow so hopefully there's some good points there too.

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  3. Anonymous5:31 PM

    16 + 16 is 38 in your world? Inflation run rampant!

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  4. d'oh. added his 3rd SOT to my doubled total, but not the base total. Fixed i the post.

    j

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  5. Anonymous8:53 PM

    Jose Reina is not the starting keeper for Spain, it is Iker Casillas.

    Great first day. Lahm, Klose and Frings looked great and of course to all the pundits that said Ecuador was only capable of winning in the high altitude. 2-0!!!

    Looking forward to England - Paraguay. Yellow cards galore...

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  6. only had one german - podolski. dropped lehman in the last minute and dropped ballack too because of injury. But Ballack was the favourite at the start of WC to be the top scoring midfielder at 4-1. So I think that I should maybe transfer him into my team.

    Eboue got me -3.5 yesterday, Toure got me 7, Riquelme = 6, joe cole = 6.5, owen = 2.5, zlatan = 2x10 = 20, messi got me 0 I knew he was injured for the first game but wanted him in the squad).

    i have RVN as captain today and Kuyt (on the bench), Pauleta and Marquez.

    My squad includes 13 strikers, 5 midfielders, 4 defenders and 1 GK. Does anyone have more strikers?

    I have $20 on Holland winning today. I win $38 if I win. Holland are 1-0 up atm and its half time.

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  7. Anonymous6:35 PM

    look at this page:

    http://www.oddschecker.com/betting/mode/c/card/worldcup2006-worldcup/scard/17323/btype/O

    it says you can get odds for england to qualify for the next round at 8/1. and you can get odds for them to not qualify at 10/1. if you put £80 that england do qualify - you will win £10. if you also but a bet on england to not qualify for £8. You will win £80 from that bet. So basically, what ever happens you win (or you're quits, but you can't loose).

    If you did the 2 bets I mentioned above you'd win £2 if england qualify and be where you started if england don't qualify. (you can change the bet around a bit so that you'll make a profit what ever happens). if you did this with £1000000 you would make a fortune.

    what's going on here?

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